MARK MERUEÑAS, KIMBERLY JANE TAN and GIAN C. GERONIMO
GMA News March 20, 2013 11:50am
(Updated 3:07 p.m.) A graduate of the Ateneo Law School topped the 949 passers of the October 2012 Bar examinations. With 5,343 total number of examinees, this translated to a 17.76 passing rate.
Ignatius Ingles topped the Bar passers with 85.64 percent followed by fellow Ateneo graduate Catherine Beatrice King Kay (84.72 percent) and April Carmela Lacson of the University of the Philippines (84.48 percent).
Ingles was the Ateneo Law School salutatorian while King Kay was valedictorian.
The release of the results of the Bar exams — believed to be the most difficult among licensure examinations — is a much awaited annual event not only by law graduates and students, but also by others to see how certain colleges and universities fare.
Also in top 10 are Xavier Jesus Romualdo of Ateneo (84.1 percent); Maria Graciela Base of UP and Jose Maria Angel Machuca of Ateneo (83.99 percent); Patrick Henry Salazar of UP (83.71 percent); Ralph Karlo Barcelona of Aquinas University (83.43 percent); Marvyn Llamas of Ateneo (83.29 percent); Carlo Martin Li of Ateneo (83.27 percent); and Francis Paolo Tiopanco of UP (83.25 percent).
Chief Justice Maria Lourdes Sereno's son, Jose Lorenzo Sereno, who is also from Ateneo, was also among the passers. Sereno inhibited from Tuesday's special en banc session, where the release of the results were approved and the grades were decoded.
According to the Supreme Court website, an original 5,686 were admitted to take the Bar but only 5,343 completed the four-Sunday examinations.
Lower passing rate
The passing rate is lower compared to the 31.95 passing rate during the 2011 Bar exams, in which 1,913 examinees passed, led by Raoul Angelo Atadero who is also from the Ateneo Law School. This, even as the passing grade was lowered from 75 to 70 percent.
"Binabaan na nga namin kasi dapat 361 lang dapat ang papasama. Pero dahil Holy Week may puso din naman kami," SC Associate Justice Martin Villarama, Bar exams chief, jokingly said at a press briefing following the release of the Bar exam results.
SC Public Informatiom chief Theodore Te said the latest passing rate is the lowest in 12 years.
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